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[TheMightyP]

Hopped on the Splatfest.

Go team Marina Present

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Decided to write up a roster for an SFxT style Street Fighter x Mortal Kombat game. I not only decided on characters but I also tried to come up with reasons why each character would be paired with their respective tag partner and what they were doing. I just copied the idea of the Pandora McGuffin from xT but I did add a new twist on it that you'll see in the little bios I wrote. A few of the Street Fighter characters have similar storylines to what was going on in xT but like... if I'm using the same setup and the same pairing you can only make it so different. Fortunately I changed a good handfull of the SF pairings anyway so that problem only affected a few of them.

And no, I'm not keeping current with each fighting game's story. I kind of made a mish mash of the cannon of both series in order to present each fighter in their most iconic state.

So anyway, here's the roster

Spoiler

Street Fighter​	Mortal Kombat​	Guests​
Ryu	Ken Masters	Scorpion	Sub-Zero	Mega Man
Chun-Li	Elena	Liu Kang	Kung Lao	Bugs Bunny
Edmond Honda	Dee Jay	Raiden	Fujin
Blanka	Rashid	Kitana	Jade
Zangief	Rainbow Mika	Sonya Blade	Jax Briggs
Guile	Cammy White	Johnny Cage	Nightwolf
Dhalsim	Sagat	Kabal	Kurtis Stryker
Thunder Hawk	Fei Long	Smoke	Noob Saibot
Balrog	Vega	Kano	Baraka
Master Bison	Juri Han	Ermac	Reptile
Rose	Ibuki	Cyrax	Sektor
Guy	Cody Travers	Goro	Sheeva
Necro	Seth	Shang Tsung	Quan Chi
Poison	Lucia Morgan	Shao Khan	Mileena
DLC​
Dan Hibiki	Sakura Kasugano	Frost	Rain
Gill	Kolin	Sindel	Tremor
Crimson Viper	A.K.I.	Skarlet	D’Vorah
Bosses​
Akuma	Shinnok
Ingrid	Kronika

Similar to SFxT, M. Bison and Juri are fought as sub-bosses by MK characters and Shao Khan and Mileena are fought as sub-bosses by SF characters. Akuma is the final boss for MK characters and Shinnok is the final boss for SF characters. However, either side has the potential of triggering fights with Ingrid or Kronika is the right conditions are met.

Here's the character rivalries

Spoiler

• Ryu and Ken vs. Liu Kang & Kung Lao
• Chun-Li and Elena vs. Kitana and Jade
• Edmond Honda and Dee Jay vs. Smoke and Noob Saibot
• Blanka and Rashid vs. Raiden and Fujin
• Zangief and Rainbow Mika vs. Goro and Sheeva
• Guile and Cammy White vs. Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs
• Dhalsim and Sagat vs. Shang Tsung and Quan-Chi
• Thunder Hawk and Fei Long vs. Johnny Cage and Nightwolf
• Balrog and Vega vs. Kano and Baraka
• Master Bison and Juri Han vs. Shao Khan and Mileena
• Rose and Ibuki vs. Ermac and Reptile
• Dan Hibiki and Sakura Kasugano vs. Rain and Frost
• Guy and Cody Travers vs. Scorpion and Sub-Zero
• Necro and Twelve vs. Cyrax and Sektor
• Gill and Kolin vs. Sindel and Tremor
• Poison and Lucia Morgan vs. Kabal and Kurtis Stryker
• Crimson Viper and A.K.I. vs. D’Vorah and Skarlet
• Akuma vs. Shinnok
• Ingrid vs. Kronika
• Mega Man vs. Bugs Bunny

And here are the storylines

Spoiler

You'll find out more details as you learn but just keep in mind, this is a new universe where Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat characters and storylines both exist simultaneously. And Someone has dropped the powerful Pandora (a box that grants fighters infinite power) into the Antarctic and it's drawing everyone from both series to it.

Street Fighter

• Ryu and Ken Masters
  • Feeling a similarity between the power of Pandora and the power of the Satsui no Hado, Ryu enlists his old rival Ken to go on a journey with him to stop it from spreading it’s influence to other fighters.
• Chun-Li and Elena
  • Acting on intel given to them by the Special Forces, Interpol has ordered Chun-Li to investigate Pandora and it’s connections to Shadaloo and Outworld. On her journey she encounters Elena, who can feel the effects of Pandora on the winds. The two decide that journeying together would be safest and begin heading south.
• Edmond Honda and Dee Jay
  • A convenient news broadcast brings together Dee Jay and Edmond Honda when the former decides to use the latter’s bathhouse. Taken in by Dee Jay’s talk of the rhythm of battle and Pandora’s effects on it, Honda decides to journey to the south pole with him to claim the box.
• Blanka and Rashid
  • Feeling left out of training after Dan and Sakura head off to find Pandora in the Antarctic, Blanka teams up with Rashid (a popular fighting influencer he has seen on line) to venture to the Arctic and prove himself to Dan and his Mama.
• Zangief and Rainbow Mika
  • Wanting a partner to go with her to the Antarctic to recover Pandora to prove herself, Rainbow Mika contacts her wrestling idol Zangief. Never missing a chance to develop his muscle and encourage Mika’s training, he agrees to journey with her.
• Guile and Cammy White
  • Cammy’s Delta Red unit is assigned to assist Guile’s Air Force Unit in a joint operation to retrieve the Pandora.
• Dhalsim and Sagat
  • Dhalsim and Sagat form an alliance to retrieve the box after it’s power starts affecting people in their villages.
• Thunder Hawk and Fei Long
  • Thunder Hawk is no longer able to hear the spirits that guide him, and he suspects that the Pandora is the reason why. Knowing he needs a partner to travel with him he seeks assistance from Fei Long, the world famous actor and fighter her met during his World Tournament days.
• Balrog and Vega
  • Balrog and Vega are forced to work together by Shadaloo to try to retrieve the box.
• Rose and Ibuki
  • Sensing Soul Power within the energy afflicting fighters thanks to the Pandora, Rose decides to find and destroy the box. She reaches out to a renowned Ninja Village and hires Ibuki to be her bodyguard on the journey.
• Guy and Cody Travers
  • Cody is let out of jail by Mayor Haggar and sent to the Antarctic with Guy so they can both investigate Pandora.
• Necro and Seth
  • Knowing that the Illuminati are almost certainly going to be after Pandora, Necro and his girlfriend Effie vow to get their first and assassinate Gill when he inevitably arrives. During their journey they encounter Seth, recently revived in the body of Doll Unit 0 and also on a quest for vengeance against Shadaloo. Seeing wisdom in their plan and knowing that Shadaloo also seeks the box, Seth joins their journey so they can be rid of both Gill and Bison forever.
• Poison and Lucia Morgan
  • Deciding that the power of the Pandora is exactly what she needs to gain more fame and notoriety for her wrestling federation, Poison sets forth to claim it as her own. But with Hugo in the hospital after injuring himself in a Pandora induced rage, Poison is left without a tag partner for the journey. Luckily she is able to convince Officer Lucia Morgan of the MCPD to journey with her to claim it with a clever deception.
• Master Bison and Juri Han
  • Sensing the ultimate power contained in the box, Bison and Juri temporarily set aside old grudges to attempt to recover Pandora.
• Akuma
  • Feeling the pull of the Pandora’s power, and aware of the many powerful foes it will draw towards itself, Akuma journeys to the box to claim it’s power and slay any fighter he finds along the way.
• Ingrid
  • Ingrid was the original creator of the Pandora, a box meant to test humanity. She now seeks to reclaim the box from Kronika and set the timelines right.
• Dan Hibiki and Sakura Kasugano
  • Dan has decided that seeking the Pandora would be a perfect training exorcise for Sakura. So the two have set out on an expedition to get to the box and beat every foe presented to them along the way.
• Gill and Kolin
  • Shadaloo and Outworld are not the only people interested in the Pandora. Gill and the Illuminati seek it’s power as well. Embarking on a quest to recover it with his trusty secretary Kolin, Gill plans to use the Pandora to spread his influence to every human being on the planet.
• Crimson Viper and A.K.I.
  • Crimson Viper and A.K.I. met each other and fought to a stalemate after both women’s organizations assigned them to go after Pandora. With both unable to defeat each other, they decide to journey together for now, each trying to find a way to get the upper hand before they reach the box.

Mortal Kombat

• Scorpion and Sub-Zero
  • After the revelation that it was Quan-Chi who killed his family and not Bi-Han, Scorpion forsook his master and vowed to protect the young Kuai Liang as he stepped into the role of Sub-Zero. The two are now journeying to the Antarctic to retrieve Pandora so they can both use it’s power to kill Quan-Chi.
• Liu Kang and Kung Lao
  • The two Shaolin monks were assigned by their masters to recover the Pandora and stop it’s influence over Earthrealm’s fighters.
• Raiden and Fujin
  • Worrying that their quest will only result in Liu Kang and Kung Lao getting killed and believing that only a god can really tame the box’s power, Raiden asks his brother Fujin to travel to Antarctica with him to retrieve the Pandora.
• Kitana and Jade
  • No longer taken in by the lies told to them from a young age, Kitana and her bodyguard Jade are pledged to serve Earthrealm and stop Shao Khan. With his forces and others amassing and headed for the box in the Antarctic, their next destination is obvious.
• Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs
  • With the latest Special Forces intel showing both Shadaloo and Outworld forces converging on the Antarctic, Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs are once again paired up to get there first and contain whatever anomaly is present there.
• Johnny Cage and Nightwolf
  • Nightwolf was hired as a battle and cultural sensitivity consultant on Johnny Cage’s latest movie “Indians vs. Indians” (featuring a conflict between Native Americans and actual residents of India) when the news of the Pandora’s arrival came in to the studio. Seeing this as the ultimate publicity stunt, Johnny drags Nightwolf with him on a journey to claim the box and promote the movie.
• Kabal and Kurtis Stryker
  • After the Pandora’s influence on people’s aggression causes crime rates on his beat to skyrocket, Kurtis Stryker tracked down his old partner Kabal (who was wounded during Shao Khan’s invasion) and enlisted his help in his investigation of the Pandora and it’s power.
• Smoke and Noob Saibot
  • Smoke freed Noob Saibot from the NetherRealm so the two could journey to Pandora together. While claiming that he wants to serve Shinnok like Noob does, Smoke is secretly hoping that the box’s power will cleanse Bi-Han and return him to normal.
• Kano and Baraka
  • Shao Khan hired Kano to attempt to claim the box for him. Fully expecting the Black Dragon leader to betray him, Shao Khan forced him to travel with the ever-loyal Baraka to keep an eye on him.
• Ermac and Reptile
  • The second of Shao Khan’s box retrieval squads, Ermac and Reptile were natural to pair together due to their independent supreme loyalty to the Khan. But even they can not say if that loyalty is stronger than the power of the box.
• Cyrax and Sektor
  • Deployed by the Lin Kuei to retrieve the box and test out their new cybernetic soldiers in combat scenarios. If they succeed, the grandmaster will robotically convert the entire clan!
• Goro and Sheeva
  • Goro and Sheeva were also assigned by Shao Khan to travel together and find the box. Knowing that such power will only make things worse for the Shokan under Shao Khan’s rule, Goro and Sheeva plan to claim the power for themselves and finally place their people at the top of Outworld’s hierarchy of power.
• Shang Tsung and Quan Chi
  • While each sorcerer was sent to retrieve the Pandora independently by their masters, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi have decided to team up to claim the box for themselves. This Deadly Alliance will not last long however, as both men intend to double cross the other and fully claim it’s power.
• Shao Khan and Mileena
  • Shao Khan seeks the power of the Pandora to finally turn the tide of battle against Earthrealm. The only one he trusts to journey with him personally to retrieve it is his beloved daughter Mileena.
• Shinnok
  • Shinnok sends a weaker avatar of himself to claim the Pandora in the Antarctic so he can finally free himself from his prison. He becomes one of the final challenges many fighters face before attempting to claim the box.
• Kronika
  • Seeking to reclaim her full power and return to her place controlling the Hourglass, Kronika tapped into the power of Pandora to create a new fused timeline from the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat prime timelines. The Pandora began drawing fighters to it, amplifying their aggression and feeding on their strength. This time, it’s funneling all that power to Kronika.
• Frost and Tremor
  • Tremor, seeking to steel the box out from under Kano and sell it for his own gain, recruits Frost from an underground fighting ring to increase his odds at success. Though he claims the two will split the profits, he’s obviously lying.
• Sindel and Rain
  • The influence of the Pandora has freed Sindel from Shao Khan’s control. She has now teamed up with Rain to try to free Edenia from Outworld’s control with the power contained in the box.
• Skarlet and D’Vorah
  • Initially left behind in Outworld while Shao Khan and his other agents attempted to claim Pandora for him, D’Vorah convinced Skarlet to journey with her to claim the box under the assumption that it’s work for Shao Khan. In reality, D’Vorah simply wants to gain control of it’s power for her hive.

Guests

• Mega Man
  • The Blue Bomber was sent back in time by Dr. Light to retrieve Pandora and stop the calamity it will cause to save the future.
• Bugs Bunny
  • I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

TheMightyP have fun with your Team Present Mirror matches

 

[TheMightyP]

Play Splatoon for the first time in forever
Still rocking the Hero Shot
Still rocking the Dab emote
Two 1000 point games right off the bat

Unc still got it

 

[cashregister9]

It may be too early to tell, but I think with the final Splatfest and the special map

They might have made Tricolor fun to play

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

It may be too early to tell, but I think with the final Splatfest and the special map

They might have made Tricolor fun to play

False, Tricolor is never fun to play

 

[cashregister9]

False, Tricolor is never fun to play

my bad,

comparatively fun to play

 

[TheMightyP]

Update: this team sucks and I have buyers remorse

 

[HyperSomari64]

Mega Man is coming to Brawlhalla

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Update: this team sucks and I have buyers remorse

Mighty picking Team present

 

[Noipoi]

New Undertale/Deltarune Newsletter

So basically the completion deadline for chapters 3 and 4 was September 1st, and they met it. Thats right, the next two chapters of Deltarune are fully complete. All that’s left is localization, which they’re hoping will be finished by mid October.

So after that…

Is it almost time?

 

[TheMightyP]

Mighty picking Team present View attachment 394287

I did this for Marina and they letting me down

 

[Wario Bros.]

Mega Man is coming to Brawlhalla

I've tried to give that game a shot a few times and it never clicked for me. The game is way too hard to see with its very zoomed out camera and very tiny text.

And it doesn't help that all of the characters feels the very same most of the time.

 

[TheMightyP]

Play Splatoon for the first time in forever
Still rocking the Hero Shot
Still rocking the Dab emote
Two 1000 point games right off the bat

Unc still got it

Update 2: I'm actually washed.

 

[Noipoi]

Update 2: I'm actually washed.

So this is the best Marina’s strongest warrior can do?

 

[TheMightyP]

So this is the best Marina’s strongest warrior can do?

I mean our team just lost a 4v3 so we're 100% not winning this Splatfest.

Although hearing the Splatoon 1 victory theme again is kinda sweet

 

[Noipoi]

Sans cup (real)

 

[SnakeFighter64]

How many other Perdona spinoffs will we get before we finally get Persona 5 Arena?

 

[Noipoi]

How many other Perdona spinoffs will we get before we finally get Persona 5 Arena?

Perdona?

 

[Aurane]

Sans cup (real)

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I want. Give.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Perdona?

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One day we will finally have an all out brawl to settle our rivalry.

Duxx fell so I may rise! (Tbh I don’t even remember Duxx, I just remember his role in The Heist as your ultimate rival.)

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I mean our team just lost a 4v3 so we're 100% not winning this Splatfest.

Although hearing the Splatoon 1 victory theme again is kinda sweet

How the **** do you lose aginst a team with a missing *****

 

[TheMightyP]

Yeah team present isn't winnning this lol. Team Past has our number.


Also, I kinda miss how unbalancwd Splatoon 1 was. There was an art on how bonkers and outright broken everything was. Who could forget

• Pre-Patch Burst Bombs
• Damage up making the long range weapons that's supposed to suck at short range one shot at short range
• Defense up being completely useless
• Frame 1 Ubercharge that can also be used team wide
• Frame 1 Ubercharge that also insta kills
• Comeback-Stealth Jump combo (I miss you so much Splat1 Comeback)
• E-Liters in general
• Dynamo Roller that had zero weaknesses
• Carbon Roller somehow faster AND better than the stock roller
• Ink Mines being absolutely terrible
• Seekers that did not work
• The Disruptor
• Luna Blaster Neo
• Zink Mini being the best weapon in the game before it got nerfed to ****

Again, it was art

 

[TMNTSSB4]

How many other Perdona spinoffs will we get before we finally get Persona 5 Arena?

play Persona 5 X to completion (if possible) and then complete every other game and anime in the franchise before there is a Persona 5 Arena

 

[Aurane]

Playing PMD DX now. Psyduck is so ****ing good man. Already got Blizzard for him so now he's just sweeping through floors.

Also I am hungry.

 

[Noipoi]

That Three Wishes live performance

They’re just ****in Nintendo squids I shouldn’t be feeling

 

[KillerCage]

I could have sworn Team Future was in a close race with Team Present with Team Past a distant third but the Half-Time tell a different story.
This perception might to me playing Pro Turf War and Tri-color while not touching normal Turf War, but who knows.

 

[TheMightyP]

This team is trash man.

Ggs y'all

 

[cashregister9]

This team is trash man.

Ggs y'all

That's what I said about my team because team present keeps destroying me

I have lost every x10 and x100 to team present and have not seen a single Team Past (outside of tricolor).

 

[TheMightyP]

That's what I said about my team because team present keeps destroying me

I have lost every x10 and x100 to team present and have not seen a single Team Past (outside of tricolor).

From my experience, team Past is obliterating Present rn.

Doing good against Future tho

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Uh, un Now or Never Seven
The place is on fire
MMARIE SAY SOMETHING

 

[cashregister9]

The Grand Fest staging area and everything around the Grand Fest has been great.

Where the hell was this energy for the rest of the game?

 

[TheMightyP]

The Grand Fest staging area and everything around the Grand Fest has been great.

Where the hell was this energy for the rest of the game?

They left it in Splatoon 2

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Its impossable.for defenders to defend in tricolor. We ca not get over there and up that wall fast enough.

Only good part is the stage gimmic

 

[TheMightyP]

So after playing this Splatfest for some time, I'm starting to remember why I put down Splatoon 3 for a good while

Spoiler: Thoughts on Splat3 (long)

I really do like this game. I genuinelly have a lot of fun playing it and it's a very well made shooter. It's just, pun intended, this game feels heavily sanitized compared to 1&2. In other words... there's really nothing special about this game imo. Everything 3 does has either already been done or done better by previous games, and the game really doesn't hide it either. It's clear from the moment you boot up the game; Deep Cut, another idol group, doesn't have that witty banter like SS or OTH did, nor do they really have depth to their charafters besides being Robinhoods. But even extending beyond that, the stage variety is severly lacking; a lot of them have the exact same general layout, returning stages have been neutured, and idk it feels a lot more cramped than previous games, the verticality in particular got hit hard; why are they all so flat? Climbing the walls is supposed to be a major theme here. I also feel the cramped maps also kills a lot of playstyles, snipers got hit hard imo because now there's no verticality to perch and players can close the distance extremely fast. The support/setup playstyle got hit hard too, cause now Beakons have much less utility, and locator weapons aren't needed because there's a lot less places to hide. You gotta be agressive now, and as one who plays more of a support role in shooters, it's not a change I enjoy.


Beyond the general gameplay, soundtrack took a hit too, not a memorable song from 3 imo. Story mode is the same old help the Squid Sisters story but Octo Expansion, the DLC was disappointing (the first one was just a cosmetic change, like be serious). I also feel they could've done more with the new weapons, Splatana's especially.


I remember saying something a while back that companies need to stop prioritizing e-sports before the casual scene, and I feel like that's what Nintendo did with 3 (and I know, Nintendo and E-Sports don't mix). But idk I just get that vibe playing Splatoon 3.

Still a good game and fun if you're a true squid kid (not me though, I'm an octo kiddo)

 

[Noipoi]

So after playing this Splatfest for some time, I'm starting to remember why I put down Splatoon 3 for a good while

Spoiler: Thoughts on Splat3 (long)

I really do like this game. I genuinelly have a lot of fun playing it and it's a very well made shooter. It's just, pun intended, this game feels heavily sanitized compared to 1&2. In other words... there's really nothing special about this game imo. Everything 3 does has either already been done or done better by previous games, and the game really doesn't hide it either. It's clear from the moment you boot up the game; Deep Cut, another idol group, doesn't have that witty banter like SS or OTH did, nor do they really have depth to their charafters besides being Robinhoods. But even extending beyond that, the stage variety is severly lacking; a lot of them have the exact same general layout, returning stages have been neutured, and idk it feels a lot more cramped than previous games, the verticality in particular got hit hard; why are they all so flat? Climbing the walls is supposed to be a major theme here. I also feel the cramped maps also kills a lot of playstyles, snipers got hit hard imo because now there's no verticality to perch and players can close the distance extremely fast. The support/setup playstyle got hit hard too, cause now Beakons have much less utility, and locator weapons aren't needed because there's a lot less places to hide. You gotta be agressive now, and as one who plays more of a support role in shooters, it's not a change I enjoy.


Beyond the general gameplay, soundtrack took a hit too, not a memorable song from 3 imo. Story mode is the same old help the Squid Sisters story but Octo Expansion, the DLC was disappointing (the first one was just a cosmetic change, like be serious). I also feel they could've done more with the new weapons, Splatana's especially.


I remember saying something a while back that companies need to stop prioritizing e-sports before the casual scene, and I feel like that's what Nintendo did with 3 (and I know, Nintendo and E-Sports don't mix). But idk I just get that vibe playing Splatoon 3.

Still a good game and fun if you're a true squid kid (not me though, I'm an octo kiddo)

Splatoon 3 is still a really rad game, but Splatoon 4 is gonna have to shake things up because I feel like the standard formula has ran it’s course.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Splatoon 3 is still a really rad game, but Splatoon 4 is gonna have to shake things up because I feel like the standard formula has ran it’s course.

You know what they could do? Bring the protype rabbits back

 

[Aurane]

Splatoon; It's a game. Did I enjoy it? Sure. Do I still enjoy it? Not so much. But it's not the game's fault. I just don't like vs multiplayer games anymore (except tf2).

I like it's co-op mode though.

 

[TheMightyP]

Splatoon 3 is still a really rad game, but Splatoon 4 is gonna have to shake things up because I feel like the standard formula has ran it’s course.

Yeah.

Tbh I think 2 was a better Splatoon game. Had more of an identity even if it turned out to be Tenta Missle spam in the end.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

Also, Nintendo, can I please have Male Idol group please